but they're all Shock! Theres a massive influx of Blue and Dark Matter shards and it's showing in every gate because almost every section is Shock. This isnt so much a suggestion to the devs as it is the players:
Spiral Knights, please think before you dump all your shards into a gate! Look at this: http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Gate_construction#How_Minerals_Affect_Stra...
and then decide how you want to sell them, because it's going to be no fun when every single section of the new gates are Shock. OOO gave us control over these gates but we must take responsibility in order to build fun new gates with varying sections.
That isn't permanent, that is what the stratums have as there symbol by default until the gate gets closer to being released. I noticed this a couple days ago with one of the current gates. It showed up as all shock but when the gate was opened the stratums were mostly all different. I think the shock symbol is just a place holder they added when they changed the system up in the last patch.